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Full PeaceWomen Newsletter Text: http://www.peacewomen.org/publications_enews_issue.php?id=200
Crises and Silences – Women for Peace
Maria Butler, PeaceWomen Director
August 27, 2014 - Violent extremism, militarization
and arms proliferation continue to devastate communities from Sinjar
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The silence and the contradictions of the Women, Peace and Security agenda on prevention, profits and proliferation are very evident when stakeholders, particularly those in the international community, discuss the spectrum of violence in these different contexts.
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We see this gender resistance and blindness in Ukraine where WILPF Secretary-General, Madeleine Rees, is on mission this week doing an assessment. There is a real and persistent gender bias among power holders and this is the core of what Women, Peace and Security must challenge to change the status quo. In a recent interview on mediation, I discuss how power is the bottom line, and how power holders, most often governments and armed groups, want to control the power dynamic, resources and discourse......
So
with 2015 around the corner, we are asking what is the "call to
action"? How can we address the silences of Women, Peace and Security?
PeaceWomen calls for national debates on WPS/SCR 1325 where Member States hold
parliamentary sessions on Women, Peace and Security. It is clear that
implementing the WPS agenda including in the post-2015 agenda will continue to
be an uphill battle. But civil society groups, including WILPF, must continue
to press for implementation at national and local level, women’s participation
in the peace-making, mediation and negotiation processes to fully implement SCR
1325 and the WPS agenda.